Monarchs U17 Juvenile Boys keep the gold at home with a tremendous weekend at the Monarchs 30th Anniversary Tournament!!

The Mississauga Monarchs Juvenile Boys team
hosted a 16 team 30th anniversary tournament last weekend. The NBA division was a preview of this year's
OBA Division 1 finals featuring eight of Ontario's top teams including the CYBL
league leading Waterloo Wolverines, last year's OBA champs Etobicoke Thunder,
last year's #1 OBA ranked Toronto JCC Eagles, AAU team South Windsor Warriors,
and last year's OBA division 1 teams Cambridge Centaurs, Guelph CYO Knights,
and Whitby Saints.

The Monarchs #1 Bowen team started slow
losing their first game 68-62 (Adnan Begovic 14) vs. the Whitby Saints and
recovered to beat the Toronto JCC Eagles 78-65 (Stefan Jovcic 19, Tristan
Mananquil 18) in the second game Saturday.

They entered the last round robin game
Sunday morning needing to beat the 2-0 Cambridge Centaurs by 9 points for a
berth in the gold medal game and they beat them convincingly by a score of
72-47 (Adnan Begovic 16, Johnny Kasongo 14) .

The gold medal game was held at Sheridan
College Oakville campus in front of a large crowd versus the Waterloo
Wolverines who defeated Guelph with a 3 point buzzer beater to advance to the
championship game. Mississauga defeated
the Wolverines 58-52 (Matt Manocchio 13) to win the championship.

Monarchs coach Ricardo Bowen said:
"The players have come together at the right time playing strong team
defense and unselfish offence and their success was deserved. The coaching staff is proud of the team's improvement
and success."

Guelph rebounded to win the bronze medal by
a 73-62 score over the Whitby Saints.

Monarchs #22 Stefan Jovcic dominated the
offensive and defensive boards and was selected as the tournament MVP.